Sid Meier's Pirates Digital Download Now Available

The digital download version of Feral Interactive's Sid Meier's Pirates! is now available for purchase from Macgamestore.com and other online outlets.

The game invites players to live the life of a 17th century Caribbean pirate captain in an epic, open-ended seafaring adventure. Face down dogged enemies, duel enemy captains, woo fair maidens and raise the Jolly Roger high above the seven seas in pursuit of glory and riches.

Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history! Based on Sid Meier’s original masterpiece, Pirates! invites you to live the life of a 17th-century Buccaneer in this epic, open-ended seafaring adventure.

Test your skills as a privateer flying the Jolly Roger across the Caribbean. Duel enemy captains, exchange plank-shattering broadsides and seize valuable booty, woo fair maidens, dig up buried treasure, and of course plunder unsuspecting ports. As your reputation and skills grow, so will the size and quality of your crew, and your ability to take on larger enemy ships, raid heavily fortified ports, and locate ancient treasure. There's a whole cast of interesting and dangerous characters to meet, mysteries to solve, and exotic island destinations to discover.

It’s a game of high adventure, where brave and skilled players battle for treasure and glory. Those who succeed achieve great fame and wealth – and those who fail rest forever in Davy Jones’ locker!

I'm wondering if that means that the previous disc based version of Pirates! will get a patch with the newer online activation DRM. Has any of Feral's older games now available as download versions (e.g. Bioshock, Brothers in Arms, Rome TW) been patched like this?

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Apologies for resurrecting this old thread but I had a hankering to play Sid Meier's Pirates again but it's asking for the DVD which is a problem because I no longer have a DVD drive. I guess I don't even know if it would work in Mac OS Sierra anyways though. I still have the DVD from being a beta tester on the game but obviously that does me no good anymore. Does anybody know if there's a solution to this?

Apologies for resurrecting this old thread but I had a hankering to play Sid Meier's Pirates again but it's asking for the DVD which is a problem because I no longer have a DVD drive. I guess I don't even know if it would work in Mac OS Sierra anyways though. I still have the DVD from being a beta tester on the game but obviously that does me no good anymore. Does anybody know if there's a solution to this?

I wonder if you had a .iso or .dmg and mounted it if it would be enough to trick it. I know a lot of games were smart to this but...... There's still the matter of making the image if you don't have access to a drive.

I wonder if you had a .iso or .dmg and mounted it if it would be enough to trick it. I know a lot of games were smart to this but...... There's still the matter of making the image if you don't have access to a drive.

Yeah I thought of that but I don't have access to either of those. It might be possible for me to borrow a DVD drive from a friend but that probably wouldn't solve the problem either because I can't keep the drive. I'm also not going to buy DVD drive just to play this game. And once again I don't even know if it will work in Mac OS Sierra.